BlueIris
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Thu Jan-10-08 10:24 AM
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The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 1/10/08 |
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"The Copper Beech"
Immense, entirely itself, it wore that yard like a dress,
with limbs low enough for me to enter it and climb the crooked ladder to where
I could lean against the trunk and practice being alone.
One day, I heard the sound before I saw it, rain fell darkening the sidewalk.
Sitting close to the center, not very high in the branches, I heard it hitting the high leaves, and I was happy,
watching it happen, without it happening to me.
—Marie Howe
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Thu Jan-10-08 10:52 AM
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BlueIris
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Thu Jan-10-08 10:59 AM
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2. Ah, Tuesday. You are like, my best poster. |
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Thu Jan-10-08 11:05 AM
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You and Retro's threads are what keep me coming back to "teh Lounge"
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BlueIris
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Thu Jan-10-08 10:35 PM
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Fri Jan-11-08 12:46 AM
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Ah, how evocative and nice!
Sheltered by the arms of the Copper Beech...
:hi:
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Fri Jan-11-08 12:48 AM
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I've had that feeling, sitting up in a tree, up in the canopy, feeling like I was part of the tree.
It wasn't a tree in a yard, but an old pine tree out in the woods. :)
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Fri Jan-11-08 01:14 AM
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8. I like what this poem says about self-esteem. |
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It is still the number one thing most good people don't have enough of.
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